trip out v.1
1. to experience a hallucinogenic drug or a simulacrum thereof; cit. 1998 refers (poss. naively) to heroin; also fig. use.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Sat. Eve. Post 239 44/1: On Los Angeles' Sunset Strip, in ‘the acid capital of the world,’ [...] students continue to trip out, in search of their souls, or enlightenment, or just ‘kicks’. | |
| Science News 17 Apr. 264: The worst bummer of all time was recorded by Robert Louis Stevenson. It seems that the good Dr. Jekyll tripped out on a mysterious powder and ended up as the nefarious Mr. Hyde. | |
| ‘Atomic Dog’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 33: Both the first and the second albums we did in one day, tripping out of our minds like a motherfucker. | |
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Inside 64: [of heroin] My cellmates were tripping out in a world of their own. | |
| Layer Cake 256: I’m sitting in there tripping out, but it ain’t too psychedelic. |
2. in fig. or ext. uses of sense 1.
(a) to lose control, to leave normality.
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 18: golden girl – The main chick; a fantastic fox that makes every guy trip out. | |
| Jones Men 31: The blood was just pourin’ out, and everybody just trippin’ out. | |
| Campus Sl. Oct. | |
| Da Bomb 🌐 29: Trip out: To get crazy. | |
| Westsiders 158: The machine just tripped out. |
(b) to strike one as funny, crazy, extraordinary or amazing.
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 42: (it will) trip you out – To be informed of an amazing or sensational bit of delightful information. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 258: trip out 1. Have a good time. | |
| Makes Me Wanna Holler (1995) 100: That first hit tripped me out on a lot of levels. | |
| Campus Sl. Fall 11: TRIP – please. or make laugh: ‘That play was totally hilarious and completely TRIPPED me out.’. |
(c) to obsess or fantasize about.
| Blood Brothers 118: I start trippin’ out on death an’ what’s it all mean. | |
| (con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 155: It is the old French bunker [...] As superstitious as this guy is, I can just imagine the tripping out he does on that. |
(d) to be amazed, delighted.
| Limo 149: ‘Like you can really trip out on a fifteen-footer [i.e. a wave]. It’s really radical’ . | |
| Campus Sl. Mar. 7: trip, trip out – to become extremely excited: He was tripping out when Jordan slamdunked the ball at the buzzer. | |
| Monster (1994) 254: The following day we went to the Islamic Center [...] and I totally tripped out. | |
| Source Oct. 43: Maia Campbell . . . will trip out in G’s Trippin’. |
(e) to feel confused.
| 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 39: I’m tripping out. If we can have this truce now, why did we ever start shooting at each other? | |
| Rakim Told Me 48: MC Shan [...] would trip out because he was from the land of rap [i.e. New York] and everyone was paying attention to these so-called country bumpkins from Florida. |
(f) to confuse, to render someone emotionally unstable, to perturb.
| (con. 1960s) Tripmaster Monkey 235: She was tripping him out as on drugs. | |
| Whores for Gloria 91: That really tripped me out when somebody knocked on the door. He jumped off the bed and drew his gun. | |
| 8 Ball Chicks (1998) 39: What really trips me out is I never see the sunlight in my dreams. |